Shane R. Zellers was born in Wiconisco, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, in 1988. He graduated from Williams Valley High School, Tower City, and then attended Alvernia University in Reading, where he […]
Mrs. Elsie Zimmerman, of Tower City, a notorious abortionist with no known medical training, admitted to performing an abortion on Elsie Drumm, which resulted in her death in 1938. Mrs. […]
A portrait of Dr. Robert D. Spencer of Ashland, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. Dr. Spencer was the best known of the doctors who performed abortions in the area adjacent to the […]
Two well-known Pottsville men, W. H. Mortimer, and Robert Wessinger, were arrested in 1933 and charged with performing an illegal or criminal operation (abortion) on Anna Snyder of Lykens, Dauphin […]
Dr. Levi A. Shirk (a.k.a. L. A. Sherk), a well-known and respected medical professional in the Lykens Valley area with offices in Tower City and Millersburg, went to trial in […]
A brief story telling of the funeral of a Williamstown, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania woman, Mary Kilraine, appeared in the Harrisburg Patriot on August 1, 1905: G.A.R. HONORS FOR WOMAN By Associated Press to The […]
Portrait photos in composite form of the 1973 graduates of Williams Valley High School, Tower City, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, as presented in the West Schuylkill Herald, Tower City, June 7, […]
A Pennsylvania Highway Map from 1930 showing the location of improved highways in the Tremont and Pine Grove areas of Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. The information presented below describes the improvements […]